In farming, business outcomes are often greatly swayed by factors over which we have no control—in particular, weather and the markets. So to take a little of that pressure off, farmers need to be on top of their planning game—that is, planning the things we can control in order to maintain level-headedness when those uncontrollables don’t go our way.

In his latest FarmFutures blog, Darren Frye discusses flexible planning around a variety of options “just in case” your ideal scenarios don’t play out as you’d hoped. It’s a good thing to keep in mind as you begin planning your own 2019 crop year.

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